Sigmund Jähn
personal-info
known-for
Acting
gender
Male
birthday
1937-02-13
place-of-birth
Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, Saxony, German Reich
also-known-as
biography
Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (13 February 1937 – 21 September 2019) was a German cosmonaut and pilot who in 1978 became the first German to fly into space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.